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Ronan O’Connell

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Explore 6 of history’s most infamous scams and hoaxes

31 March 2023. By Ronan O’Connell

How a brutal POW camp became an idyllic island paradise

25 March 2023. By Ronan O’Connell

This mysterious son of a ‘witch’ founded Glasgow

11 January 2023. By Ronan O’Connell

How Nessie and the Yeti birthed a global cryptid-chasing industry

30 November 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

Why Western Australia’s coast rivals the Bermuda Triangle

18 November 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

The bloody legend of Hungary’s serial killer countess

21 October 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

Environment and Conservation

Australia hands control of its newest national parks to Indigenous peoples

10 October 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

These fabled ‘ghost’ islands exist only in atlases

31 August 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

Environment and Conservation

Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings

12 April 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

Behind the mystery of Saint Valentine’s bones

11 February 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

How these Japanese prayer plaques became symbols of hope

1 January 2022. By Ronan O’Connell

These masked singers continue an Irish Christmas tradition

9 December 2021. By Ronan O’Connell

Why the shipyards that built the Titanic still influence Belfast

17 November 2021. By Ronan O’Connell

Reeling from COVID-19, Italy’s violin capital is rebounding with music

1 September 2021. By Ronan O’Connell

On the trail of Ireland’s legendary pirate queen

24 May 2021. By Ronan O’Connell